Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A clip of wood or plastic for fastening clothes to a clothesline.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A forked piece of wood or a small spring-clip for fastening clothes on a clothes-line.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A forked piece of wood or plastic, or a small device with a spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
clip orfastener used to secure garments to aclothesline while drying. - verb transitive To
affix with a clothespin.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun wood or plastic fastener; for holding clothes on a clothesline
- noun wood or plastic fastener; for holding clothes on a clothesline
Etymologies
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Examples
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And then he informed me that attached to the clothespin was a sign that said, ‘I’m a dork.’
Obsession John Douglas 1998
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And then he informed me that attached to the clothespin was a sign that said, ‘I’m a dork.’
Obsession John Douglas 1998
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I sat down beside her, pulled the clothespin off her nose and watched, with amusement, as Mabel picked up the mirror on the table.
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Rick rack trim from my sewing stash was glued down and held with a clothespin til it dried, and the oval was outlined with tee shirt paint, which is sometimes only about 50c and lasts for a long, long time.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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See the little sign hanging from the clothespin (lower left)?
Characters 2009
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The average clothespin isn't as formal or beautiful as it should be, so I move the parts around while keeping it recognizable.
A Pop Sculptor On Thinking Big Kelly Crow 2011
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You know that you can't even drive through Iowa without a clothespin on your nose to protect you from the smell of all of the Pig S (manure) T!
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We lined it up along a rope, each of us attaching an end with a clothespin.
Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011
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You can use a clothespin to attach each cap to the dishwasher rack.
Hints From Heloise washingtonpost.com 2010
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“Do you know how many freckles you got yesterday?” he asked when I had attached the last clothespin.
Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011
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